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He had a decent performance but still has to improve his decision-making and ball control in tight spaces and under pressure.

I think ball control in tight spaces happens to be one of his greatest attributes. He is a master at using his frame to hold of a defender and his dribbling in tight situations is just great.
As far as decision making, he doesn’t really ever play as a CM like he does with the first team. With the B team he’s basically a 10 or a free playmaker. So his decision making and defending(which is his weakness) won’t improve until he joins the first team.

He had a decent performance but still has to improve his decision-making and ball control in tight spaces and under pressure.

I've yet to see a Barca CM (or midfielder) who always look to receive the ball in advanced places as Alena, even b4 B team.
He will need to learn to play deeper, or turn into attacker, otherwise he will have one of the main flaws of both Rafinha & Denis

Feel bad for Aleña hahhah but he will celebrate at summer when he is promoted to the first team and can be coached by a class manager like Valverde. Gerard Lopez with an another disasterclass today "but but signing will help Lopez".

Time to let Aleña get some first team football? The boy will get promoted this summer and it's good for him to get some experience before promotion. Needs to play instead of Paulinho which I can't enjoy.

The man today and like other games is pure shit and we bought him for 40M? Denis, Paulinho and Gomes have not proven themself to be good enough for this club. Bartomeu and Segura thought Paulinho and Gomes, two braindead players are good enough because they are physically strong? Deluded. Won't say anything about Denis tho because we used the buy back clause to buy him back, but he isn't good enough so time to sell all of them so Aleña can get some space. Only Busquets, Iniesta, Coutinho, Rakitic and Roberto are better MF's than him. But only Rakitic and Roberto play in the RCM position so Aleña needs to compete only with them. Time to give Aleña which cost us nothing game time and let us be patient like we were with Gomes last season and Paulinho now. Let us trust la masia which many people think is dead, but it's not. Sergi Roberto, a nobody player few years ago has proven everybody that doubted him that he will be good enough, which he is today. Time for Aleña in the CM postion and then we can think about Juvenil players after him mixed with good signings.

Sergi Roberto should be an example for many youth kids. Why? Roberto was never the biggest or the most talented kid in la masia when he was young. He had talent, but he worked hard to reach a level I didn't expected him to reach. If a player like Roberto can reach that level, why can't a very talented kid with very good technical ability to do that? I understand why some la masia players leaves us. Because right now our club isn't good enough to convince our youth players that they are important. but to be honest I really hope they work hard and prove everybody wrong. With some patient and hard work I believe youth kids will get chances (hopefully) and at the end succeed.